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To ensure participation of more women and differently-abled students in PhD programmes, Union Minister Smriti Irani announced a slew of measures including a two-year extension for them to submit thesis papers. Women and differently-abled students will get eight years, instead of six years, to submit their thesis, maternity leave benefit and mi more...

JEE (Advanced), formerly known as IIT-JEE, is an annual college entrance examination of the IITs. It is also one of the toughest engineering entrance exams in the world. Only around 2 lakh students shortlisted from JEE (Main) get to appear for JEE (Advanced). The offline JEE (Main) is scheduled for April 3 while the online computer-based test is sc more...

As an add-on facility, Union Health Ministry today introduced an online procedure of receiving application from medical colleges seeking to start post- graduation courses or increase seats in existing ones. After the online submission, applicants will have to upload a scanned copy of the consent of university, demand draft and other documents. As more...

A survey commissioned by The HRD Ministry highlights the tenfold increase in the number of IB schools in India for the past 10 years. Beginning with mere 8 institutes in 2000, today, the number of international schools has grown to 478. Karnataka has the second most, following Maharashtra. Both the International General Certificate of Secondary Ed more...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is conducting the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main examination on April 3, April 9 and April 10, 2016.   The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main is conducted to short list candidates seeking admission to undergraduate engineering programmes at NITs, IIITs, other centrally funded technical more...

TN Class X common exams in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry began today with totally 10,72, 223 students appearing from 12, 054 schools. Among the entire students writing the exam 5, 14,798 are boys and 5, 08,852 are girls. Apart from school students 48,573 are taking up through private. Totally 3369 centers have been setup for the entire exam that is to more...

The CBSE Class 12 board exams have started from March 1, 2016. This year, a total of 14,99,122 candidates have applied for the Class 12 exam, out of which 4,46,641 are girls and 6,21,259 are boys. The CBSE Physics exam is scheduled to be held on March 5. Before appearing for the exam, it is important to understand that the subject Physics requires more...